Holder for medicine-bottles and absorbent rolls.



C. C. KEFFER.

HOLDER FOR MEDICINE BOTTLES AND ABSORBENT nous.

APPLICATION FILED APR.1.19I5.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

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CLARENCE C. KEFFER. OF UNION CITY, INDIANA.

HOLDER FOR MEDICINE-BOTTLES AND ABSORBENT ROLLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1 916.

Application filed April 1, 1915. Serial No. 18,591.

To all whom it m 0}] concern Be it known that I, Cnuuax on C. Knrrnn, a citizen oi the United States, resident of Union Pity, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana, ha\e made a certain new and useful invention in Holders for Medicine-Bottles and Absorbent Rolls; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable otl'iers skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the invention, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speciiicition.

Figure l is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the bottle holder. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the blank for the bottle holder. Fig. l is a detail cross section partly broken away aml talzeu through one of the upright clasping arms. Fig. ii is a similar view taken through one of the horizontal bracing arms. Fig. (5 is a detail perspective view of the lBQCGl ended absorbent roll.

The object of the invention is to provide an improvement in devices for preventing acid or other strong or discoloring liquid from dropping upon the patients clothes, such improvement being designed particularly for the use of dentists.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinaiter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings the numeral 2 indicates the four-sided prismatic bottle usually employed by dentists for holding acids or other strong liquids, and 3 designates a cross-'lorm holding base for such bottle, this holder being made of thin or sheet metal. In making this holder a blank is provided such as is illustrated at 4, said blank having four broad and short portions o projecting from its central rectangular portion 6, and four longer portions 7 projecting from the central portion, between the portions 5. In the finished holder, the longer portions or arms T remain in the plane of the fiat central portion, and the short and broad portions are bent upward, between the arms 7, substantially at rightangles to the central portion, sufliciently toward each other on opposite sides to provide clasping members or arms to en gage the sides of the bottle and hold it in position against the central base portion 6, said clamping members being spaced apart from each other, as shown at (3. The bolding base, therefore. has four horizontal bracing arms T projecting from its central portlon at right-angles to each other, and

serving to extend the base materially. to prevent the bottle held thereby from being upset, and four clasping arms projecting upward. This bottle holder is designed also to hold in inclined position a small roll of absorbent cotton 9, having a beveled end located between the bottom of the bottle and the holder base.

I claim:

A cross-form sheet metal bottle holder, comprising a central horizontal base having four long broad horizontal bracing arms eX- tending from its sides in the plane of said base and at right angles to each other, and four clasping arms projecting upward from said base. each clasping arm being located between two bracing arms and the elasp ing arms being spaced apart from each other.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

DR. C. KEFFER. W'itnesses REUBEN A. ()HLER, O. M. Jnrrnms.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

